Word: waugh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...setting is the fictional island of Pharamaul, a British protectorate, which recalls Azania, the island invented by Novelist Evelyn Waugh as a basis for his superb and little-remembered tragic farce about Abyssinia, Black Mischief. It also evokes headline-real Bechuanaland, which recently welcomed back chastened Chief Seretse Khama after his six-year exile in London, imposed when Seretse married a white London typist. And finally, it resembles Kenya...
...Work for Money. When Author Mitford (the Hon. Mrs. Peter Rodd) heard of Ross's paper, she dashed off an essay for Encounter elaborating his theme (her chief U distinction: "The purpose of the aristocrat is most emphatically not to work for money"). To this, Novelist Evelyn Waugh added a non-U note of his own: "All nannies and many governesses, when pouring out tea, put the milk in first." In the Spectator, the journalist "Strix" (Peter Fleming) pointed out that in U-speech there is "a relish for incongruity." Hence, a dull party can be a disaster, while...
...compelling quality of his powerful voice when he was shifted from the front lines to the rear areas with orders to lead soldiers in community sings. Back in the States he toured the country as an evangelist until he reached California and became a lecturer at Hollywood's Waugh-celebrated cemetery, Forest Lawn...
...Help America Grow. Last week Banker Waugh was off on a three-week flying trip to Mexico and Central America to look over still more loan prospects, plans trips to Europe and Asia this year. He also hopes to encourage more small loans, bring more private capital into export-import trade, thus release more Ex-Im funds for new loans...
...whether or not more private bankers come in, President Waugh promises to keep Ex-Im growing. He measures the need for the bank by letters such as the one he got recently from Mack Truck President P. 0. Peterson, who landed a $1,000,000 bus order from Iran with Ex-Im help. Wrote Peterson: "If America is to continue to grow and prosper, industrial concerns like Mack must find outlets for their increasing production. The Export-Import Bank is playing an essential role in enabling America to obtain its fair share of foreign markets...